The key to effective marketing is understanding your buyer - that's where buyer persona's come in. Adele Revella, President of the Buyer Persona Institute shares her unique perspective on building great buyer personas.
12. What makes this
problem become an
urgent priority for this
buyer?
What are this
buyer‘s
expectations
for success?
What barriers
prevent this buyer
from choosing you?
What process
makes it easy for
this buyer
to choose you?
What criteria this
buyer uses to
compare options?
Five Rings of Insight™
13. Buyer Personas Need to Focus on Buying Decisions!
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The Priority That’s Triggering My Need for This Solution:
This Initiative Will Be a Success If:
What is Preventing Me From Making This Decision:
What I’m Evaluating About Each of the Solutions I’m Considering:
My Role in the Buying Process for This Solution:
Persona Name
My Top Priorities Overall
15. Ask for the Buyers’ story
Take me back to the day
when you first started looking
for a ________ solution.
What happened?
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16. Similar insights? One persona
CIO/VP of IT in all industries
CMO/Director of Marketing in
Healthcare
CMO or Director of Marketing in
Finance
17. Buyer experts (aka…marketers) know …
WHAT
WHO
WHERE
WHEN
HOW
WHY
Buyer
Expert
To include in messaging & marketing
content
Sales people & lead generation campaigns
should target
To prioritize marketing investments
Buyers will respond to sales people &
campaigns
To focus on marketing efforts that impact
buyer’s choices
Your strategy has the highest potential to
achieve your goals
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At the end of the day, shaping your buyers vision begins and ends with you identifying your target buyer and target buyer persona. The foundation of great marketing and sales is understanding who this person is and what makes them tick. So, Adele there is ton of advice out there about how to identify and develop buyer personas. In our experience a most of it isn’t very useful. Why is that? What needs to be different?
That’s very interesting! So, what steps should our audience take to start developing “real”, insightful buyer personas?
I met with a potential customer of our the other day and they told me they had over 20 buyers personas and they wanted to understand what it was going to take to develop content for each of their personas! Adele, this s what you do. Do me favor. Settle this debate. How many persona’s do marketers really need to develop?
Ok. Let’s say we’ve got three buyer personas, how does that help to marketers on this call?
Image: purchased from istockphoto.com http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-12078901-nerd-in-retro-vest.phpYour target buyers have interests, problems, questions. Now that you know then. Speak to them. Be transparent. Hide nothing. Share insights. Create research. Answer questions before they ask. Tell amazing stories they can relate to. Make them laugh. Establish trust
Thank you all for spending the time. And if you have any additional questions, of course, you can email me at reed.overfelt@fullquota.com or go to FullQuota.com.